8Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.


In Context

5 |When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

7 In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

9 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Matthew 6:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg anything of him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Therefore be ye not like them: for your Father knoweth what things ye need before ye ask him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Be not you therefore like to them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.